Check-protector.



J. E. SIMPSON & C. J. PAULSON.

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AMES E. SIMPSON AND CHARLES J. PAULSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS T TODD PROTECTOGRAPH COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER- BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented dept. $5, 191?.

Application filed June 19, 1915. Serial No. 34,9?6.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that JAMES E. SIMPsori and CnAnLns J. PAULSON, respectively a citi zen of the United States and a subject of the King of Sweden, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and,

useful Improvements in Check-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to check protectors, and our improvement has particular reference to means operable in conjunction with machines employed for use with sheets such as checks, drafts and the like, to print, mark.

of the paper, in an attempt to create a permanent record'which could not be changed, it has been found possible by smoothing out the embossed surfaces, passing the check again through the machine, and embossing thereon a different legend to make the check appear, upon casual inspection, to be payable for a larger amount than was originally intended to be conveyed.

With the difl'erent forms of check protectir machines, cliiferent methods are employed for applying the protecting legend, but in most machines the material of the check is embossed or disrupted to form the impression of the legend or to permit the paper to absorb printing ink. Tiaking advantage of the weakened or disturbed condition of the check material where the original legend was impressed, we have provided means within the machine, operating in advance of the legend delineating mechanism, whereby, as the feed mechanism attempts to draw the check through the machine, the weakened or disturbed portion of the check is caused to become permanently ruptured. and the check thereby destroyed beyond repair.

Hence, the purpose of our invention, as applied to a check protecting machine, 1s to destroy any check to which a protective legend has once been applied and which isreintroduced into the machine for the purpose of applying a second legend thereto.

In brief, our invention may be said to comprise a sharp or pointed tool or instrument, fitted and adjusted in a check protecting machine, in advance of the mechanism thereof which performs the indenting or other legend creating operation upon a check or 1 the like to be thus protected. Said instrument is in alinement with said legend cleating mechanism in the path of that portion of the check which is to receive the legend as the check is fed through the machine. A characteristic of said tool or instrument, by virtue of its arrangement and adjustment, is that it will permit a check or the like to be introduced within the machine the first time, for the purpose of receiving the protective legend, the surface of'the check being then undisturbed, but an attempt to put said check through the machine a second. time results only in the irreparable rupturing or tearing of the check material in the I part thereof where the previous legend had been created. This is due to the fact that the edge or point of the tool or instrument, which willnot afi'ect the original surface of the check. is adapted to engage with that surface after it has been weakened or dis turbed as by the act of removing the legend. 01', if only a part of the legend has been removed, then the tool or instrument will readily engage with the indented or otherwise afiected legend bearing portion of the check, with the same result of tearing and destroying the check.

Other features and advantages of our said invention will hereinafter appear.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a broken cross sectional view of a check protecting machine including our improvement.

Fig. 2 is a detail end view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a detail plan view, and

Fig. 4C is a sectional elevation of a modi fied form of rupturing instrument.

In the form of our invention illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, we have shown only certain portions of a check protecting machine,

, member 10, having an engaging end such, for example, as that disclosed in U. S. PatentNo. 1138330, granted to Todd and Tiefel, May 1, 1915, including the frame 1, in which is journaled the main shaft 2, supporting a rotatable type carrier provided with the types 3, and a bearing wheel 4 for.

cotiperation with the types. The types 3 and'wheel i are usually corrugated or pro-- vided with circumferential depressions, which intermesh as they come together on the opposite surfaces of a check, as 5, to thereby grip and simultaneously print and feed the check between them through the machine, as fully disclosed in said Patent No. 1138330. The shaft 2 carries a cam 6, to engage and rock an arm 7 of a bell-cranklever, which is fulcrumed at 8, and whose of the check, may consist of a'pivoted rod 12, having an arm 13, engaging with a bail 14 on said member, said rod having also an arm 16 and being rocked by the engagement with arm 16 of a push piece 15 which is guided for vertical movement in the frame 1. Release of the push piece 15 allows the engaging end 11 to lightly contact with the surface of the check. The contact thus effected has no destructive action upon a check the first time it is put through the machine, but if the check be re-introduced, then the engaging end 11 of the member 10 will catch in the marks or indentations which were previously created by the types, and will tear the paper at that point as the check is fed through the machine, the rupture utterly destroying the check and preventing its fur ther use. As stated the member 10 will operate in this manner even though the protective markingmay have first been smoothed out, because the check material will have been weakened by the ,marking, or its surface disturbed and rendered susceptible of engagement by said member.

To avoid the liability of the member 10 being held free from the check, by sustained pressure upon the push piece 15,- while the check is being guided through the machine, as for production of a second legend thereon, we provide interconnecting means Toe-- tween the shaft 2 and said push piece, whereby the operation of turning said shaft, to-actuate the feed and indenting means, serves to restore the push piece to normal position with the member 10 in operation,

eanne-1 and whereby greater pressure applied to push piece 15, to hold the member 10 out of action, serves to prevent actuation of the shaft.

These means may comprise an extension 17 upon the push piece 15, carrying a piv otal lever 18, having a notch 19 to engage with a portion 20 of the frame, when the push piece is pressed down, a spring 21 then drawing said lever into such engagement, to thus hold the member 10 out of action for the insertion of a check. The extension 17 also carries a saddle, as 22, with which a cam 23 engagesas the shaft 2 is turned, as by manipulating handle 24, the cam 23 first bearing against a tail piece 25 of lever 18, to release the latter from its notched engagement, Whereafter the cam 23, hearing against saddle 22, thereby raises the push piece 15 and restores the member 10 to its operative position, this action occurring at the same time in the rotation of shaft 2 as the feeding and indenting operations are about to be performed. 'In this manner, the mechanism being inclosed, attempts to withhold the operation of the member 10 are prevented.

In the modified device'of Fig. 4:, two opposed plungers 26 27 are provided, with juxtaposed edges etween which a check may pass, to be destroyed by engagement of said edges with an indented, or otherwise disturbed or weakened portion, as in passing a check into a protecting machine a second time; One of said plungers may be pressed toward the other w th desired tension, as by a spring 28, which is shown as pressingthe plunger 26 toward plunger 27 A lever as 29 may be pivoted to engage with the plunger 26, to raise it against its spring pressure, and thus permit the introduction of the check, as by the operation of a push piece 30. Also said plunger 26 may carry a shredding wheel 31, adapted to bear against a surface 32, and thus to shred anew a previously shredded checlr portion preparatory to passage between the plungers.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope and spirit of our invention, and parts thereof used without others.

We claim 1. The combination with a printing machine adapted to disrupt the fibers of the paper /by its impression, of a device cooperating with the paper placed in the machine and adapted to detect and tear any portion thereof which hasIbeen previously disrupted by an impression.

2. The combination with a check printing machine adapted to mark a check with a disrupting impression and to feed it through the machine, -of a device adapted to bear upon the check and to detect and engage a portion of the check which has been previously impressed, forpreventing a second impression upon the same check, means for rendering said device inoperative to permit the adjustment of the Work in the machine, and means for locking said device in operative position during the operation of the machine. p

3. The combination With a check printin machine adapted to mark a check with a dis rupting impression and to feed it through the machine, of a device comprising an instrument having a point bearing upon the paper and adapted to engage and tear a previously embossed portion of the check to prevent a second impression thereon, and means for adjusting said point to permit the insertion and removal of a check.

4. The combination with a printing apparatus adapted to emboss the portion of the check printed upon, of a device comprising a member adapted to contact with the work to be printed, and to detect and tear any portion thereof which has previously received an embossing impression.

5. The combination with a marking apparatus, including work embossing mechanism, of an embossing detecting device includin. a disruptive work engaging member.

6. Tlie combination with a marking apparatus, including Work embossing mechanism; of a detective device, including awork disrupting member formed for contact with g the work during the operation of the machine for destructively engaging a previously embossed portion thereof.

7. The combination with a work marking and feeding apparatus, including Work embossing mechanism; of a detective device, including a Work disrupting member formed for destructively engaging a previously embossed portion of the Work during the feeding movement thereof.

Signed at the borough of Brooklyn in the county of Kings and State of New York this 23rd day of March A. D; 1915.

JAMES E. SIMPSON.

CHARLES J. PAJULSON Witnesses:

WM. 0. FOSTER, F. W; BARKER. 

